Risk Assessment

The Risk Assessment is a tool that allows workers to assess the level of risk in a household. It can be created from an assessment, and will be required if an allegation has been substantiated on an Assessment.

The cards on the Risk Assessment are broken into four pages. Work within the assessment can be tracked on the progress bar located at the top of the assessment.

The screen shot below displays a partial view of the Risk Assessment. You can click the View Assessment in the top right corner of the smart bar to navigate back to the Assessment.

The following cards populate the Risk Assessment:

• • Assessment Details: the date of the assessment

  • Neglect: questions that quantify the level of the child's risk of neglect. The answers are summed to produce a standardized score

  • Abuse: questions that quantify the level of the child's risk of abuse. The answers are summed to produce a standardized score

  • Scored Risk Level: a summary of the standardized scores

  • Override: this section allows the worker to override the standardized score produced by Casebook. Any override action must be dictated by DCS policy.

  • Decision: summary of the child's risk level

  • Planned Action: description of actions that will be taken against the threat of risk.

  • Secondary Items: information about the child's caregivers

  • Completion checkbox: needs to be marked as final before submitting the unit of work.

Notifications

You will be required to complete a risk assessment on an assessment with a substantiated allegation. Once an allegation has been substantiated, a warning message will display on the Plans and Tools card. If the allegation is marked as unsubstantiated, the warning message will no longer display (or will not appear).

Creating an exception

• 1. On an assessment with a substantiated allegation

  2. Click the small red exclamation point in the warning message

  3. A popup window will appear; click Create Exception

• 1. Enter the reason for the exception

• 1. Click Submit. The exclamation point will turn gray. When you click the gray exclamation point, the reason for the exception will display.

If a Risk Assessment is not completed, and an exception is not added, the standard set of error messages will display when you try to submit the assessment for approval.

• 1. A red outline box will appear at the top of the page that lists which fields are missing.

  2. A red pill message will popup at the top of the page.

  3. Inline warnings will appear next to unanswered required fields.

Submission

Upon completion of the Risk Assessment, a pop-up box will appear asking you to confirm that everything on the assessment has been completed. All required fields are marked with red asterisks. If so, click Submit. 

If not all required questions on the Risk Assessment have been answered, you will receive error messages beneath the questions that are missing answers.

You have 7 days to edit the assessment once it has been submitted.

Deleting a Risk Assessment

Workers can delete a Risk Assessment that was created in error from the Assessment page. In the Plans and Tools card, click on the Risk Assessment that was created in error.

Once the tool is open:

• 1. Click on the Action Menu

  2. Select Delete

• 1. Click OK to verify you want to delete the tool